Hey there Phelan. I’ve been binge watching Ashens videos of bootleg/cheap toys… You two should do a cross-over or something. Nevermind the fact that he’s in the UK and you in Canada… Make it happen! Chop chop!

Hey there Phelan. I’ve been binge watching Ashens vidoes of cheap bootleg toys… You two should totally do a cross-over or something. Nevermind the fact that he’s in the UK and you in Canada… Make it happen! Chop chop!

This is not directly related to the current video, but I have a very special message for you, Phelan.

Hi, I am the head representative and attorney for the Society for the Appreciation of Baltard, and sir, we take great offense at you propogating the myth of Baltard’s stupidity/dumbness/”loserness.”

Be it known that in the year 2250 Galaxy Calender (hereafter GC) the Planet Ferror had been a grim place, primal and dangerous, the humanoid populations constantly threatened by not only the natural wildlife–the dinosaurs, the tigers, and of course the deadly red-eyed horse–but by each other, for of course the tribal societies back then could not get along and constantly warred. The number one cause of these wars? Whether the skull shield was prettier than the bird shield.

Then from the heavens came Baltard, bringing science and wisdom to the societies of the Planet Ferror.

The hardships he faced are too many to tell in a mere forum post–for fuller details you can purchase our book “Baltard: His Labors and Lessons” for a mere 49 mobiums–but a brief account is as follows: He rallied the followers of the “Square Harness” (the Sun Harness clan, alas, had previously been swayed by Pretty Pony and Demon Michelangelo and refused to heed him) and with their help, set up a self-sufficient agricultural society near the Ferror Tropics where they could study and learn the inner workings of the universe. You may have heard of some of the fruits of this labor–the miracle experiments of Dr. Orio, or the toadlike creatures that became more powerful in lava, or the ability of a mere brain to conquer Dimension X.

The greatest hardship, however, was the uprising of the humanoids. Pretty Pony and Demon Mike had a falling out, and without Demon Mike’s cooler head to reign her in, Pretty Pony was free to preach her racialist beliefs to a receptive audience. This was why the snake men and wolves later joined Baltard’s side–spurred to action by witnessing the cruel massacre of the tiger men at the hands of Magnon’s MaGoons (as he called them–Magnon was not very good at names). It was, sadly, too little too late, and the barbarians succeeded at shrinking Baltard’s civilization–though not utterly destroying it, and even this is yet more proof of Baltard’s genius, for by this time he had already given his followers the secret of space travel, and even now his intellectual descendants are out there, colonizing vast worlds.

Therefore, think twice before you denigrate the memory of the greatest being to ever live!

Yeah, the version in my head was much funnier. Unfortunately between having a broken keyboard that forces me to re-type the letter “A” and being surrounded with cats and kids who won’t give me a spare moment, sometimes things don’t come out as good as they could’ve been.

On a completely serious note, I’m curious if Phelous has paid any attention to the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise. Seems like something he’d like.

Phelous, I’m not sure whether to thank you or f*** you for giving me new obsessions. After the Lord of Insects video I actually looked up that Sectaurs thing (like you, I had never heard of it) and found uploads of the cartoon on Youtube and… well, its actually damn good.

And I mean seriously, the toy commercial proudly announces that its whole line is based on “a civilization DIES!” That’s like something you would do as a joke, and these people actually did it. This thing is amazing.You’ve also got me wondering if collecting Go-Bots would be a worthwhile endeavor.

1) That’s the 80’s for you. A strange time before overzealous kid’s program censors bothered with “protecting” us kids from too many kinds of violence or darker themes. If you REALLY want to see the 80’s out of control, check out a cartoon called Inhumanoids, or the somewhat bastardized translation of Macross and two other anime series that ran during kids programming hours called “Robotech”.

2) collecting GoBots will not do anyone any good…

But seriously, I had some GoBots as a kid, and they just aren’t sought after because they were generally less cool toys than the Transformers, and the cartoon was forgettable Hanna Barbera mediocrity.

GoBots are also the reason perhaps the greatest 80’s cartoon of all only lasted 13 episodes and was pulled from the air by ABC in 1984: Tonka sued to have Mighty Orbots pulled from the air for copyright infringement, even though it’s pretty laughable and a weak case…Tonka were a big advertiser during Saturday Morning cartoon time…so the network caved.

Yeah, some of those cartoons were surprisingly dark. There was a show called Spiral Zone where roughly half the Earth is covered by a chemical that turns people into mindless husks, and they don’t shy away from the damage that did to human society. It’s also got a pretty badass theme song.

Believe it or not, there was an officially endorsed fan-made DVD set of that (the fan had somehow gotten the original masters and permission to make the set), but apparently it was only available for a limited time from one specific website. If I had known about it at the time, I would’ve jumped to own it.

Jon Protagonist… I’m actually a huge fan of Robotech (to be honest, I later saw the three anime its based on and still found Robotech’s telling to be overall superior). I used to own all the DVDs and a complete set of the novels. And yeah, its impressive as all hell, especially when you think about how later anime like Dragonball Z and Yu-Gi-Oh had to tone down all the death and violence with things like “sent to another dimension,” when in the eightis Roy Fokker straight-up DIED.

I’ve never gotten to see Mighty Orbots (probably for the reason you stated, though in general I don’t discover these shows until they get DVDs). My favorite eighties cartoon of all time is He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, including its sister series She-Ra (but I’m dubious about counting the New Adventures or the 2002 version as part of the canon).

…. And the main thing that made me think of Go-Bots was discovering there was one named Spoons, who turns into a forklift. That just amazed me, though if you’ve never watched The Spoony Experiment you might not know what’s so funny about that (by the way, is there any rule against mentioning Spoony on this site? I ask because I’ve heard there was some drama between him and Lupa, who of course is dating Phelous now, so I don’t want to commit a faux pas)

It’s got a lighter overall tone with some corny humor sprinkled in, but gets awesomely RAD when it’s time to fight. The characters themselves are quite charming and drive the plot rather than just being a generic team of robot heroes, and the animation and voice acting lend it a ton of personality.

Also, the theme song kicks it up to eleven on the totally rockin 80s o’ meter.